This is the incredible story of how one of Adolf Hitler’s top secret V-2 rockets was stolen by the Poles and smuggled to Britain in the most extraordinary operation of World War IIMore extraordinary still, it is a story that is utterly neglected.The V-2 rocket was part of Adolf Hitler’s plan to break British morale. The world’s first rocket-delivered warhead, the V-1, had killed thousands of British people before Allied forces captured its launch sites and ...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

From the internationally bestselling author of Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan comes a masterful new novel set in a vivid world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offering an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition.In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man recalls his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a ren...

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction—Complete 20 Volumes offers a sweeping conspectus of the modern novel and tale, tracing fiction's development from eighteenth-century satire and comic realism to psychological, historical, Gothic, romantic, and social forms. Its range extends from picaresque wit and domestic irony to supernatural terror, moral fable, realist portraiture, and expansive social critique, with landmark works such as novels of manners, historical romances, American sketches,...

The emotional, gripping book club pick from BESTSELLER Louise GuyOne woman. Two worlds on the verge of colliding.When Julia Hudson is involved in a near-fatal accident, the lives of her children – nurse Flo and her twin sister, high-flying lawyer Ari – are sent into freefall.As they sit vigil by their mother’s bedside, the sisters discover that Julia, who has always preached unwavering principles and integrity, has been keeping a terrible secret. A secret that s...

Your sister once saved your life… Would you repay her with the child she’s always dreamed of?Liv and Toni were once inseparable. While their parents focused on Mandy, their little sister with special needs, the two older sisters leaned on each other for love, support and security.When they were in their teens, and Liv needed a lifesaving operation, Toni didn’t hesitate to do whatever it took to help her. Since then, their lives have gone in different directions. They live...

Could you trust the sister you’ve never met before?When tragedy brings biological sisters Jessica Williams and Reeve Elliot together, the initial shock of learning of each other’s existence is quickly replaced by a commitment to be there for each other.For Reeve, it’s the support she needs at a time when her life is falling apart – she’s having blackouts and memory loss, exactly what her beloved late mother suffered from just a few years ...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

In the three novels that make up the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy collected in this omnibus edition (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road), five University of Toronto students find themselves transported to a magical land to do battle with the forces of evil. At a Celtic conference, Kimberley, Kevin, Jennifer, Dave, and Paul meet wizard Loren Silvercloak. Returning with him to the magical kingdom of Fionavar to attend a festival, they soon disco...

The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars evokes a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands--where empires and faiths collide.From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-stat...

The anthology 'The Greatest Historical Novels of All Time' presents an expansive array of narratives that collectively explore the depths of human experience through the lens of historical fiction. With contributions from a stellar cast of writers, including giants such as Leo Tolstoy and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the collection spans continents and centuries, intricately weaving the personal with the historical in a range of literary styles. From the refined societal observations of Jane Auste...

111 The Path is a documented conversation between Guy David Uriel and spiritual beings from another dimension who are essentially an extension of us. Throughout the conversation, the spirits reveal an old spiritual path that has gone ignored over the centuries and eventually forgotten. The book tells us about our abandonment of this old and simple way while attempting to revive it and set us back on the right track.Why are the spirits choosing to reveal their message now? What is so...